Latest articles by Nick Evanson
Out of all the new games I've played in 2025, Grounded 2 deserves a special nod simply because it makes me like a genre that I really don't like: multiplayer survival
🏆 It's not me, it's you. I don't like you.
It's an older node, sir, but it checks out: Samsung appears to have scooped a deal with Intel to make its next generation of motherboard chipsets in its 8 nm fabs
News Ultra-tiny, cutting-edge processes aren't needed for platform controllers.
Securities firm research suggests that Intel is on track to garner chip manufacturing and packaging orders from Apple, Broadcom, Google, and maybe even Nvidia
News Intel's 14A process node and die-stacking EMIB are the favoured technologies.
AMD stealth-launches a new low power version of its Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card that could be great for a DIY Steam Machine, though it's only shaved 13% off the energy consumption
News At 140 W, it sits right between the RTX 5060 and RTX 5050 in terms of power munchies, and just above the Steam Machine's GPU.
Microsoft celebrates 10 years of DirectX 12: A decade of updates to the low-level graphics API but it's still not the master of all things rendering
News DirectX 11 hasn't gone anywhere, and don't expect to see DirectX 13 any time soon, either. Or ever, perhaps.
Asus tells owners of its Intel motherboards to update the BIOS because they 'may allow unintended access to system memory'
News And it's because of pesky DMA protections not being triggered to help out add-in PCIe cards.
Nvidia is reportedly looking to cut gaming GPU production by up to 40% in 2026 due to VRAM supply issues, but it's not as bad news as you might think. Not yet, at least
News There's already an excess of RTX 50-series cards, for starters.
'Give us the chip. Give us the RAM. Let us have our fun. Let us go nuts': Sapphire's PC gaming evangelist wants AMD 'to get out of the way' when it comes to designing graphics cards
News 'I personally wish they would let us be the companies we are in, instead of trying to create the mold.'
ZSA Voyager + Navigator review
Score: 78% Ultra-thin and compact, space-conscious minimalists will want to give this keyboard a look.
MSI MEG X870E Godlike X Edition review
Score: 80% Taking one of the most over-the-top, luxury-class AMD motherboards around and making it even more exclusive.
MIT electronics researchers develop a new way to fabricate transistors on the backend of finished dies, to keep pushing the limit of chip densities ever higher
News It's a bit like chip stacking but on the nanometre scale.
If 4K gaming is just too easy for your RTX 5090, then try it on Asus' new 5K ROG Strix display and watch it weep
News Or you could just use its 1440p dual-mode option and enjoy the 330 Hz refresh rate.
RAM prices might be sucking all the joy out of building PCs but four-screen AIO coolers go a little way to bringing a smile back on my face
News I just think it's neat.
FSR Redstone tested: AMD's long awaited AI-powered frame gen delivers the goods but it's very late to market
Redstone released Actually, it's not FSR Redstone. It's all just FSR now because of reasons that only make sense to AMD.
It never rains, but it pours: A security bug with a maximum severity rating is putting many of the worlds' servers at risk
News Fixes are available, though 'organizations should patch urgently'.
In a surprise change of heart, Nvidia's brought 32-bit PhysX support back to RTX 50-series graphics cards, though only for a select number of games
News At least you won't need to dual-GPU your RTX 5090 rig anymore, just to enjoy a bit of physics-heavy Batman.
Cyber Monday graphics card deals 2025
Cyber Monday Cyber Week's almost over, but there are still plenty of GPU deals around.
During Nvidia's formative years, its CEO reckons it 'had a mission statement for a company that has no chance of success' but it was fine because Sega's CEO thought 'Jensen was a young man he liked'
News It's easy to be whimsical about nearly ruining the company when it's now worth trillions.
Hot on the heels of Micron bailing out of the consumer RAM market, SK hynix is apparently committing over $500 billion to build four new memory fabs, with the first to be finished by 2027
News No guesses as to what customer all this money is really for.
Hypixel Studios releases the PC system requirements for its Minecraft-lookalike Hytale, and it's the most comprehensive breakdown I've seen in a long time
News And the entry bar to the blocky sandbox world is very much a voxel-shaped potato.
AMD graphics card prices could rise by $40 thanks to the RAM supply crisis, but the extra you pay could be even more
News Best forget about doing any upgrades for a while.
Windows 11's latest update includes a free File Explorer flashbang bug for dark mode users wanting to relive their early Counter-Strike days
News Just remember, we're all Microsoft's QA testers now.
Black Friday graphics card deals 2025
Deals Black Friday is here and the furious tech sale is now firing on all cores, with GPU deals coming in thick and fast.
